Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Commercial corridor revitalization can aspire to more than shops and restaurants, and it's exciting to see an arts organization anchor a block.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 25, 2021
Jacob Jonas the Company reached a widening web of collaborators across the globe. The result is a collection of three-to-ten minute finely tuned gems, visually arresting with gorgeous musica…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
"It felt like a black hole and I was slowly maneuvering my way inch by inch. But it allowed me to have space to learn what happened in the past. We’ve been here twenty-five years and it’…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Chicago theaters throw open their doors this month. Here's what to catch indoors and out.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Journalist Eddie Arruza's hard-boiled radio drama is a well-crafted love-letter to the genre, but feels out of touch with the times.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
The outdoor performance promises to make up for a year-plus of constrained and isolated living with larger-than-life pomp and spectacle.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
A new show that blends surrealist poetry, improvisatory opera techniques, new music and dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Medina Theater Collective’s inaugural production about daily life in Palestine is smart, tender, at times funny and a consistently compassionate script.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 1, 2021
"The thought about doing something that maps the richness, the ecology of our performing arts field—and literally with the geography on the map—began to excite me.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Yoshinojo Fujima and puppeteers Tom Lee and Ryugyoku Nishikawa each developed separate performances based on a popular classic Kabuki scene of young heartache, focusing on what Fujima calls …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
The company’s season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
"In the essence of contemporary dance and contemporary meaning, now, there are a lot of voices out there that maybe we haven’t explored. There are choreographers who haven’t had the oppo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Chicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
This new short dance film serves as a gentle reminder that magic can still happen, even during a year in quarantine.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
Denise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
March roars in with virtual one-on-one plays, an alt dance festival and a gradual return to in-person performance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Thanks to the ingenuity of Chicago’s dance community through a lean ten years and a hellish ten months, Chicago remains, and will remain a mecca for dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 26, 2021
Live readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
The company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
December theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Freeman's creative obsessions—brown paper, burlap and Audre Lorde—feature in her new collaboration with Jordan Phelps and VAM Studio.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
Election month performances live stream commentary on our current world, and imagine a better one.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 22, 2020
The dancer/writer's short films respond to art about a rapidly changing Beijing with echoes of nostalgia for performances that never were.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
Winifred Haun & Dancers site-specific work is steeped in the beauty of the locale and the grace of bodies in motion.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:43PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
Hedwig Dance uses interactions of the body and the video technology in a reflection on the effects of months of quarantine amidst socio-political upheaval.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:41PMOctober proves Chicago performers will find powerful ways to speak to the moment, with or without traditional stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Links Hall 96 Hours: Links Hall throws performance in the pressure cooker with a competitive cooking show approach to making new work.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:29AM 
